I don't think school is an especially good or efficient way to learn to program. The only way we actually have to learn how to program, is to try to do it. Th

I don't think school is an especially good or efficient way to learn to program. The only way we actually have to learn how to program, is to try to do it. There are online tutorials, which can help some, but classroom instruction is not especially well suited to teaching it (it's more of an apprenticeship-style skill), and empirically they do not succeed at teaching it. The graduates with CS degrees who are able to program, mostly taught themselves how by doing it, and the concepts they learned in college are as often an obstacle that they need to unlearn in the "real world" as they are useful.